Health Care

April 5, 2011

The controversy over the Berjuan nursing doll underscores that Americans still have a long way to go to accept breastfeeding as normal. If little Maggie wants to play with her baby doll, she will want to feed it somehow, won't she? Traditionally, baby dolls come with little toy baby bottles. But...

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Melissa Bartick

Health Care

March 24, 2011

Now that I am the mother of two children, sons aged 2 ½ and 11 months, I am grateful for a law like the Affordable Care Act. When I was 21, I “aged out” of my parents’ insurance because I was no longer in school full-time. My first job after graduating from college provided me with insurance but...

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Bernadette Segura

Health Care

March 24, 2011

Han pasado 12 meses desde que la Reforma de Salud fue firmada por el Presidente Obama. A millones de personas nos beneficiamos. Los estudiantes pueden recibir cuidados médicos bajo el seguro de sus padres. Personas con enfermedades crónicas que anteriormente se les negaba cobertura ahora pueden...

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Luz Villafana

Health Care

March 24, 2011

The Affordable Care Act is one year old today. Thanks to this law, millions of women across America will have real and equal access to health care coverage for the first time in their lives. Many improvements will be seen as the full law is phased in during the coming years. For instance, health...

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Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis

Health Care Blog Carnivals

March 24, 2011

As I've been thinking about what angle to take when writing my blog post to mark the one year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, I've reflected on the many posts I've already written about the law and its benefits, both for me personally, and writ large. And then it struck me, there are numerous reasons to celebrate this law, and like the hokey-pokey, that's what it’s all about!

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Stephanie Drahan

Health Care

March 24, 2011

As communities across the nation celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, CCF marked the event in its traditional style - by issuing an issue brief. It has the facts about how the Affordable Care Act will affect children, but also stories from families whose children have...

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Jocelyn Guyer

Health Care

March 23, 2011

The budget debates currently paralyzing Washington include proposals that significantly cut funding for public health initiatives, all while our nation fights an exploding epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and chronic preventable illness that cost our nation billions of dollars a year in medical costs...

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Melissa Bartick

Health Care

March 23, 2011

by Kristen Thompson One year ago today, President Obama signed the historic Affordable Care Act. I was invigorated then – along with millions of Americans – by the promise it held for the health and well-being of our nation, and most importantly, our nation’s children! Today, even as opponents try...

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Children's Defense Fund

Health Care

March 23, 2011

Let's face it. At some point, we all get sick. And, sometimes lightning strikes and we, or our families, get sicker than we ever even wanted to imagine. Most people plan for healthy lives, try to eat healthy, and regularly pay insurance premiums. So it's not until lightning strikes that people...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Health Care Open Flexible Work

March 23, 2011

Co-Authored by Michelle Noehren & Michelle Pompei We’ve been advocates for women’s rights for a while and while we have been big supporters of advocating for working moms in particular, nothing really prepared us for what life would be like as we each started our own families. The inequities...

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